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Right.

One extreme might be if you had a backdoor where the presence of a particular byte sequence in the input intentionally triggers some kind of malicious activity. The test streams can't detect this because they presumably don't contain that exact byte sequence, whereas something like AFL can find it because it can (potentially, depending on the nature of the test that recognizes the backdoor sequence) deduce what input would trigger coverage of that code path.



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